OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN TO SUPPRESS ROMNEY'S TURNOUT

Here is an excellent article by Steve McCann for American Thinker in which he discusses the Obama strategy of exploiting pre-existing tensions between segments of the Republican base.  This strategy is crucial to Obama's chances of success because he can't run a winning campaign by discussing his own record.  So he must hope that he can trick enough voters into thinking that they're better off retaining him in the White House than giving Mitt Romney a chance.

Although McCann doesn't go into it, I believe that Democrat strategy earlier in the year was to subtly encourage division among Republicans in order to prolong the primaries and leave the GOP hopelessly divided all the way to the August convention in Tampa. There was ample evidence of Democrat support for various "anti-Romney" candidates, such as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, in the hopes that the one candidate the Dems truly feared - Mitt Romney - would be waylaid and prevented from gaining the nomination.  

There can be no doubt that the Democrats preferred running against a GOP nominee who could be easily demonized on a variety of issues.  A Gingrich with his political baggage and tendency to make controversial (no matter how correct they might be) comments that can be manipulated by the Establishment Media to Obama's benefit; or a Santorum with his staunchly Catholic beliefs that would make him a target of homosexual activists and other Church-hating Democrat constituencies.  

Not only did the Democrats not get the kind of GOP nominee that they wanted but the real primary battles actually ended at least two months earlier than anticipated.  So instead of having the luxury of fundraising and building up political infrastructure while Republicans knifed each other over and over again, Obama and the Democrats have had to deal with Romney for a much longer period. And with the economy in a shambles and facing a man who knows exactly how to turn things around (because that's what he made a fortune doing in his private career), including rescuing the Olympics, the going has not been particularly smooth for Obama and his Kool-aid cadre.

Hence, the return to a tactic that has already failed once: Disrupt the GOP and hope that "the base" abandons Romney on election day.  This is something that has some potential given the short-sighted attitude of some members of "the base" who insist that electing Romney won't be any better for the country than re-electing Obama.  This ridiculous, chicken-little pessimism, as McCann points out, is based in part on some oft-repeated fallacies that tend to suppress GOP voter enthusiasm by making the national situation appear hopeless.

First fallacy: a majority of the American people are now dependent on government, so they will always vote for whoever promises to support them.   The facts: a recent Heritage Foundation study found that as of January 2012, 67.3 million Americans were dependent on government (21.8% of the total population).  While this is an extraordinarily high number it is up only 7 million since 1994.  By adding in those employed by government the total rises to 89.2 million or 28.6% of the population.   However, this is not a monolithic voting bloc as a recent survey indicated a majority of federal government employees would vote against Obama.

Second fallacy: nearly 47% of Americans do not pay any income tax so they do not care about raising taxes or spending and will always vote for the Democrats.  The facts: this statistic is rooted in the recessionary year 2009 and varies based on filing status -- e.g. 47% of those filing single paid no income taxes but only 38% of joint filers paid no income taxes.  Further, in 2009 income tax receipts accounted for just 44% of all government revenue; payroll taxes accounted for 42% and are paid by all working citizens -- as are sales, excise and effectively corporate taxes.   When factoring in payroll taxes, 86% of all Americans pay taxes.  All citizens therefore need jobs and economic growth, not higher taxes, unlike the policies being pursued by Barack Obama.

Third fallacy: there has been such an increase in voter fraud my vote really doesn't matter.  Today, there are approximately 207 million Americans eligible to vote.  Less than 150 million or 70% are registered to vote.  In the 2008 election 146 million were registered to vote (71% of eligible voters); 131 million voted in the presidential election.  There were approximately 15.2 million people registered who did not vote.  Of that number, 74% (11.2 million) were white, 12.3% (1.8 million) were Hispanic.  By age group, nearly 40% were in the 25-44 categories.   The primary reasons given for not voting: 1) not interested or did not like the candidates: 26.3%; and 2) too busy or forgot to vote: 20.1%.   Over 7.0 million who bothered to register did not vote using these two excuses.

Among those eligible but not registered, which amounted to nearly 59 million in 2008, 67.4 % were white (65% of total U.S. population) and 20.7% were of Hispanic origin (16.3% of total U.S. population).  Nearly 40% of those choosing not to register were in the 25-44 age groups.  Further, the primary combined excuse proffered for not registering was: not interested in the election and my vote would not make a difference: 50%.  That amounts to 29.5 million potential voters; Barack Obama won the election by 9.5 million votes.

Recent polls continue to show that 40% of Americans identify themselves as conservative; only 21% as liberal.  Of the remaining 39% who identify as moderate, it would be safe to assume that these citizens are equally split between the two ideologies, thus at least 60% of Americans lean conservative and 40% liberal.  Accordingly, any substantive additional turnout, registration and voting would be skewed toward electing the more conservative candidate.  Additionally, any attempt at voter fraud would be overwhelmed by these higher numbers.

So for all those who believe - sincerely or cynically - that the future is hopeless and that casting a vote for Mitt Romney in November is a waste of your time, it should be clear that this is not only false but a deliberate attempt at deception on the part of the Democrats.  Since the "hopey changey thing" has been exposed as a hideous fraud perpetrated on the American people by Obama and his followers, Obama has nothing left to offer but...fear itself.

DON'T FALL FOR THIS MAN'S LIES!